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bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes:

>
>In the benchmarking publication by AIM for testing speed/prices of unix
>boxes, it shows that for machines that cost over 50,000 dollars and up to
>2,000,000 dollars (including EVERY point in between those two prices)...
>


Next time I'm in the market for a >$49999 machine I'll keep that in mind :) :) :)


But seriously, how big in terms of number of processors sold is the $50000 to
$2000000 UNIX market? I would not think it would be too awefully large. For 
Next to sell inexpensive machines, they need to be tied to high volume silicon.
I don't know what that silicon is, but I don't think the 88K will ever be
it. Apple and Ford, by reversing their decision to go with the 88K have decided
that.

The 88K is a groovey architecure, but it is not at the present time a high
volume one. Next makes desktop machines. They, by their own vision, do not 
make servers. They need cheap fast silicon. The 88K is fast, but is not going
to have the volumes to be cheap.

Anyway,
-Chris